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In analysing the political upheavals across Europe and America in the past several years, it has become customary to talk about ‘the elites’ and about ‘inequality’. This article will explore both concepts in political and socio-economic analysis, and posits that certain elites in the West need narratives of inequality to
If it is permissible to link whiteness and depravity, why is it not permissible to link blackness and criminality?
The consequentialist justification for inequality comes in many different forms but in substance it is largely the same.
The claim that intersectionality can be fully separated from radicalism and opposition to free speech remains unconvincing.
Owens assured me these pages were from a “dummy test site,” not the real Social Autopsy database which was not online yet.
Ideological intolerance in academia and the media has dramatically narrowed the range of ‘acceptable’ ideas, beliefs, and even topics of discussion.
“People (mostly liberals) tend to say, ‘You’re on the wrong side of history’ about social issues that are breaking their way.
These modern classical liberals have a diverse array of opinions on a wide array of issues. Summarizing them all would be impossible.
Activists wanted museums to pivot away from historic collections and towards their audiences, focusing more on excluded groups.
There was a further fork in the road as soixante-huitards debated moving on from baiting police at protests to participating in terrorism.
The effects of colonial contact, and the process of acculturation on small-scale societies, can be quite unpredictable.
Who, after all, would wish for another case like Alfie Evans or Charlie Gard?
If activists are embarrassed by constitutional norms, religious devotion, and American virtues, then what are the values around which a progressive movement can hope to organise?